"Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe"

Though these nine minutes from the Ocean build through instrumental drift-- a pause for a bridge of forlorn strings and pensive drums, before it slams shut with a mean series of drum rolls and aggressive yells-- "Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe" is technically not a proper song. The latest and perhaps most-layered album from the prog-metal Germans is a 53-minute intended to be heard as one piece of music. The Ocean conceptually dives through the five primary layers of the ocean across that run time, meaning that “Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe”-- named for the ocean’s deepest layer-- ostensibly comes toward the album’s end. Given the clip’s ferocious exit, that placement seems appropriate. Metal Blade releases Pelagial on April 30; the album is currently available for preorder via the Ocean’s website.